Metastatic melanoma as femoral vein deposits: A case report

---

Case Report

Author Details : Kirtijit Chakma*, Riddhi Jaiswal, U S Singh

Volume : 8, Issue : 2, Year : 2021

Article Page : 309-311

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijpo.2021.061

Suggest article by email

Get Permission

---

Abstract

Malignant melanoma is most dangerous of all skin cancers. It is strongly linked to mutations caused by UV radiation in sunlight. Melanoma most commonly arises from the skin, other sites are oral, anogenital mucosal surface, oesophagus, meninges and uvea of the eye. We present a case of metastatic melanoma in right inguinal lymph nodes along with femoral vein deposits whose primary lesion was in skin over right foot. Single distant metastasis had a longer survival than patients with two metastatic sites or a combination of three or more. Due to patient’s negligence and limited knowledge, malignant melanoma becomes a dangerous skin cancer. It start with a painless induration (very small size) and gradually growing
in thickness. On further disease progression, regional lymph node involment is seen and later metastasize to other sites. This make the disease with very less survival outcome.

Keywords: Malignant melanoma, Femoral vein, Metastatic melanoma.

How to cite : Chakma K , Jaiswal R , Singh U S , Metastatic melanoma as femoral vein deposits: A case report. Indian J Pathol Oncol 2021;8(2):309-311

This is an Open Access (OA) journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.